"I talked to Chris, and it was this super-serious thing where it wasn't just his Twitter they hacked," he said. "It was everything. I feel like on the surface it seemed like, 'Oh, someone hacked his Twitter', but it got quite serious and he had to change everything.

"I don't know why people do it, it's stupid, but luckily people know it was just somebody who was acting insane and hacked into his account."

However, McHale admitted that the cast initially weren't sure whether or not Colfer had really been sacked, saying: "I saw that tweet and one of the other cast members texted me what he tweeted like, 'Is this true?' I'm like, 'I don't know! I don't know why you would tweet it...' I mean, I don't know why he would tweet before actually telling any of us!"